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  "kind": "Chapter",
  "metadata": {
    "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z",
    "language": "en",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 40
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  "data": {
    "n": 40,
    "bookSlug": "psalms",
    "bookCode": "PSA",
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    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "PSA-40:1",
        "verseRef": "Ps.40.1",
        "text": "I waited patiently for Jehovah; And he inclined unto me, and heard my cry."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "PSA-40:2",
        "verseRef": "Ps.40.2",
        "text": "He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the       miry clay; And he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "PSA-40:3",
        "verseRef": "Ps.40.3",
        "text": "And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto       our God: Many shall see it, and fear, And shall trust in Jehovah."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "PSA-40:4",
        "verseRef": "Ps.40.4",
        "text": "Blessed is the man that maketh Jehovah his trust, And respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "PSA-40:5",
        "verseRef": "Ps.40.5",
        "text": "Many, O Jehovah my God, are the wonderful works which       thou hast done, And thy thoughts which are to us-ward; They cannot be set in order unto thee; If I would declare and speak of them, They are more than can be numbered."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "PSA-40:6",
        "verseRef": "Ps.40.6",
        "text": "Sacrifice and offering thou hast no delight in; Mine ears hast thou opened: Burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not required."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "PSA-40:7",
        "verseRef": "Ps.40.7",
        "text": "Then said I, Lo, I am come; In the roll of the book it is written of me:"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "PSA-40:8",
        "verseRef": "Ps.40.8",
        "text": "I delight to do thy will, O my God; Yea, thy law is within my heart."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "PSA-40:9",
        "verseRef": "Ps.40.9",
        "text": "I have proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the       great assembly; Lo, I will not refrain my lips, O Jehovah, thou knowest."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "PSA-40:10",
        "verseRef": "Ps.40.10",
        "text": "I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation; I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the       great assembly."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "PSA-40:11",
        "verseRef": "Ps.40.11",
        "text": "Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Jehovah; Let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "PSA-40:12",
        "verseRef": "Ps.40.12",
        "text": "For innumerable evils have compassed me about; Mine iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look       up; They are more than the hairs of my head; And my heart hath failed me."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "PSA-40:13",
        "verseRef": "Ps.40.13",
        "text": "Be pleased, O Jehovah, to deliver me: Make haste to help me, O Jehovah."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "PSA-40:14",
        "verseRef": "Ps.40.14",
        "text": "Let them be put to shame and confounded together That seek after my soul to destroy it: Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor That delight in my hurt."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "PSA-40:15",
        "verseRef": "Ps.40.15",
        "text": "Let them be desolate by reason of their shame That say unto me, Aha, aha."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "PSA-40:16",
        "verseRef": "Ps.40.16",
        "text": "Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: Let such as love thy salvation say continually, Jehovah be magnified."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "PSA-40:17",
        "verseRef": "Ps.40.17",
        "text": "But I am poor and needy; [Yet] the Lord thinketh upon me: Thou art my help and my deliverer; Make no tarrying, O my God.           Psalm 41  For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David."
      }
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